Family Builder Month 5
Family Mission Statements
1. Is our family environment, feelings, and culture such that they will inspire or give life to a great core phase?
Too much focus on what is not going right then what is. This leads to much fault finding.
What are the things we want our children to know?
· To know how to enjoy life and spending time with each other as a family
· To love learning and exploring good things
· To enjoy and embrace culture and creativity
· To continually grow mentally, physically, socially emotionally and spiritually
· To be kind, respectful and supportive of seen and unseen potential in each other and those around them
· To know and live and serve the gospel of Jesus Christ
· To know and apply leadership principles in all they do
· To be frugal, self reliant and financially independent
· To understand and be governed by the principles of liberty
· To recognize their greatness and leave a legacy of greatness for generations to come!
2. This is pretty much our family’s mission statement. We starting working on putting this into writing a couple of years ago after finishing Steven Covey’s book ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families” We worked on it as a family during a 2 day long drive to and from South Carolina. We had lots of time to talk and asked the kids (ages 6months to 8 years) to describe what they wanted or what they loved about our family. It involved anything fun, which was playing games, going on vacation, eating yummy treats, wrestling, snuggling while reading stories etc. My husband and I got into many “debates” about what we really wanted for our family, but it was good to talk it out and really get a clear idea for our family that we both understood.
3. It has been really good to do this session and revise where we are and our statement. We have since embraced “Leadership education” and have been reminded of the importance of referring to our mission often. We have also had some circumstances with our extended family that have led us to ask ourselves how we want our family to be when our children are grown. In our couple and family meetings we have been drafting up a “story” of how the Norton family will be in 20 years. The “story” takes place on a family vacation where brothers and sisters (grown with spouses and children) have an ideal time together. My husband loves to write, and we have been having fun thinking of every last detail to put into our story. We want to describe it all and then read it as a family often.
4. We have started saying our family mission statement before bed and during family meetings. As we plan activities or sort out the calendar it is easier for us to make decisions because we have a very clear idea where our priorities are. Our kids have lots of fun trying to make up vacations to fulfill as many things as we can from our mission statement .
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